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  1. JoeBrady
    Just a couple of notes. Guys like Walter Johnson came in at 6'1 and 200 pounds. That's sizeable for that era. And they estimate he threw over 100 based on some crude munition labs. Guys like Satchel Paige didn't get measured at his peak, but was clocked at 91 mph when he was 46 years old. So they threw hard.
  2. JoeBrady
    That should be automatic. Top two records get a bye. 3rd best plays 6th best and 4th best plays 5th best.
  3. JoeBrady
    Yup, that might be the key to hitting. Strikeouts, for the most part, are just outs. But pitchers don't like walking guys. If consistently take walks, the pitchers will eventually throw you strikes. Unfortunately for Dalbec, he could never get his K/W under control.
  4. JoeBrady
    But they were in the playoff hunt all three of those seasons.
  5. JoeBrady
    3 hours ago, Old Red said: It will be an interesting decision on AR, and an extension. Baltimore didn’t think he warranted it, and he was supposed to be one of their foundation pieces with Gunner. Basallo probably dictated their moves. Once they extended Basallo, they couldn't keep Rutschman.
  6. JoeBrady
    FG projected a 3.8 for Duran. The biggest issue was the fact that we had 4 outfielders. But we also had no DH. There were good baseball reasons for holding onto him. As it turns out, we lost one of our outfielders for most of the season. Had Duran performed like he did in 2025, then holding him was the genius move. He stunk, but predicting him to be this bad is a tough consideration.
  7. JoeBrady
    That's difficult to plan for. I liked IKF last year because Story is injury prone. But if you are penciling in someone to be a fulltime player, you can't have a fulltime replacement.
  8. JoeBrady
    I'd love to see 15 HRs, a .275, and good defense.
  9. JoeBrady
    You know how often I make high roto picks on position rookies? Never. Some will become once in an era players, but most rookies are weak in their rookie years. I'll take a flyer deeper into the drafts, but very few warrant a high pick.
  10. JoeBrady
    I was referring to Drewski's post.
  11. JoeBrady
    Was Bloom supposed to chase in any season besides 2021? 78/78/81 wins in the following three seasons, with two last place finishes.
  12. JoeBrady
    No objection there. Losing Anthony was part of the problem, but watching our #1/2 not getting on base was painful to watch. Even guys like Judge become statues with no one on base. They either get an IBB, or they have to watch the pitcher throw 4-5-6 curveballs on the outside of the plate.
  13. JoeBrady
    I agree on this. I think OBP has proven itself over and over, to the degree it is accepted as gospel. But I'd rather a good HR over a mediocre OBP guy.
  14. JoeBrady
    I'm pretty sure you were full-on on keeping Duran last off-season, and singing Story's praises as recently as the playoffs. Are you saying that you'd have replaced them last off-season?
  15. JoeBrady
    You take your walks. You dont hunt em. You dont celebrate em. That sounds a bit more nuanced. But it is much more complex than that. The very first objective is to know the strike zone and recognize the pitches. The second is, when you are ahead on the count, NEVEN swing at a pitch you can't hit. Other stuff like the score, your level of power, etc., all count. But what I'd put 3rd is to simply swing as hard as you can at pitches in the zone. If you swing at nothing but strikes (theoretically) it's fairly difficult to strike out. Guys like Soto, Judge, Schwarber, etc.., prove this all the time. They'll swing from the heels all the time, but seldom swing at bad pitches.
  16. JoeBrady
    So now the key to good hitting is taking pitches early in the count? I kind of agree, but that doesn't sound like what you said yesterday.
  17. JoeBrady
    Nonsense. Anything else?
  18. JoeBrady
    Here are the walk leaders over the past 5 years: Juan Soto 601 Kyle Schwarber 531 Aaron Judge 499 Shohei Ohtani 434 Matt Olson 405 Ian Happ 405 Bryce Harper 379 Freddie Freeman 360 Rafael Devers 360 Kyle Tucker 360 Yordan Alvarez 353 I'm not sure how disappointing that list is.
  19. JoeBrady
    That's one way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is that we abandoned what worked for us. In the years that we won, our OBP was 1st, 2nd, 1st, and 1st. Our HRs, while good, were 5th, 18th, 6th, and 9th.
  20. JoeBrady
    I've mentioned this before. We were 28th in OBP in the 1-hole and #29th in the 2-hole. So even though we were 16th in HRs in the 3-hole and 16th in the 4-hole, we still wound up being 28/29th in scoring in the 1st inning.
  21. JoeBrady
    The takeaway is that there are many ways to win. And just acquiring mashers is probably the least effective and least efficient manner. OBP correlates closer to scoring than does HRs. We know this. SLG and OBP are very close, but HRs still lag. And as I've mentioned before, I have no issue with HR hitters. They just aren't the panacea fans think they are, and OBP, pitching and defense is a winning formula.
  22. JoeBrady
    The best record in baseball both seasons.
  23. JoeBrady
    Regular season.
  24. JoeBrady
    That could all well be true, but if Mil and CL meet in the WS, OBP, pitching and defense will be the new mantra. And there is nothing wrong with additional offense, in any form. But if the #26 and #28 teams in HRs are in the WS, it's almost a guarantee that people will question the importance of HRs.
  25. JoeBrady
    I know that not everyone is gung-ho on fielding, but this year's team was so much easier on the eyes than previous teams.
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